Functional Description of Project

OFDM has been widely used in a variety of digital communication systems such as
digital video broadcasting, IEEE-802.11, IEEE-802.15, IEEE-802.16, and 4G cellular
technology. The communication systems using OFDM are resilient to multipath fading
in wireless environments and have low inter-symbol interference. Fast Fourier
transform (FFT) is the critical operation in OFDM. There are many existing high-
throughput and computation-efficient algorithms for the implementation of FFT. With
parallel processing in hardware, FPGA provides higher processing power than digital
signal processing (DSP) chip sets. For fast changing standards in communication it
is more cost effective to implement a new system by reprogramming FPGAs. Verilog,
one of the dominant design tools in the industry, is used to implement the OFDM
system on a FPGA.
The project aims to design and verify a complete orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM) system on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) using Verilog
hardware description language. A system consisting of a transmitter and receiver
will be implemented using OFDM techniques.
System Block

Motivations
The purpose of the 802.11ac amendment is to improve the WiFi user experience by
providing significantly higher throughput
for existing application areas, and to enable new market segments for operation
below 6 GHz including distribution of multiple
data streams. With data rate over 1 Gbps and several new features, throughput and
application-specific performance of 802.11ac
promise to be comparable to that of existing wired networks.

New Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS)

802.11ac uses 802..11n OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
modulation, interleaving, and coding architecture.
Specifically, both 802.11ac and 802.11n require device support for BPSK, QPSK,
16QAM and 64QAM modulation.

Concluding Remarks
802.11ac represents a significant evolution in WLAN communication systems. 802.11ac
devices make use of OFDM modulation
principles as 802.11n, but use wider channel bandwidth, higher modulation, more
stream, and enhanced MIMO techniques to
increase throughput and enable faster, new applications.